The History of Wargaming Project
The project aims to make the largest possible collection of wargaming books and rules available to the modern reader. Ranging from second editions of wargaming classics, to professional wargaming rules used by the military and innovations in current wargaming.
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Recreational Wargaming...Donald Featherstone
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Donald Featherstone’s Wargames Through the Ages Volume
4: A Wargaming
Guide to 1861 to 1945
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August 2018 by Donald Featherstone Foreword by Paul Le Long, Solo Wargamers Association Edited by John Curry |
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Wargames
through the Ages was first published to fill a gap in literature of
the hobby of wargaming. It was a one volume summary from the outbreak of
the American Civil War and the concludes with the end of World War II in
1945. The period covered in the book is by far the most
significant from the wargamer’s point of view. Between 1860 and 1945,
the shape of warfare, armies, tactics and equipment underwent a
wholesale change. In the same era, the map of Europe was redrawn and the
machinations of world politics saw the introduction of military
movements by land, sea and air on an international scale hitherto
unconsidered. In 1861, the cavalry retained a still significant,
if diminishing, role in the schemes of battle commanders; but by 1945
massive technological advances, culminating in the introduction of
computerised planning had so altered the situation that a fundamentally
new approach was necessitated as it is for the wargamer. The author has
therefore considered at length the problem of formulating new rules, and
the classification and assessment of armies and their conditions.
The book is published by the History of Wargaming
Project as part of ongoing work to document the development of
wargaming.
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